Independently Building the Creator
“If you connect two electrical wires one with positive and the other with negative voltage, you get a short circuit. It is impossible to connect plus and minus with each other. Therefore, you need to give them work by putting a load, a resistor between them.
If we work together above our nature, then we accumulate efforts between us in trying to cleave to each other. By the fact that each person wants to adjust himself to the other, we build a mini-system of the Creator between us. After all, I treat you with love, and you treat me the same. Each of us takes the power of bestowal from the Creator, turning with it to another, building between us a small Creator, a small system of loyal connections and then even love.
This is how mini-systems are built between all: I am in bestowal toward you, and you are in bestowal toward me. But bestowal is already the force of the Creator, that is, we build the Creator between us in this way, as it is said: “You have made Me.”
We build such passages between each and every one — the property of the Creator that binds us. When everyone unites with everyone in this way, it turns out that we have built the Creator and revealed Him.
That is why the Creator broke our common soul, so that we would reveal Him, feel as if He did not create us but that we gave birth to the Creator. Thus, we become similar to the Creator and understand His plan, that is, we achieve complete adhesion to Him.”
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”
The Terrible Distance Between Us
A human being is born imprisoned inside himself.
Everything we naturally feel, think, calculate, desire, reject, pursue, or fear emerges from one central instinct: self-concern. Even when we appear to love, we usually love according to the measure of our own fulfillment. Even when we give, we secretly search for ourselves inside the giving.
And yet, buried deep within us, there exists another memory.
A memory not from this world.
A memory of wholeness.
We constantly search for perfection, eternity, meaning, truth, love without betrayal, connection without fear, fulfillment without emptiness. We thirst for something no earthly pleasure can permanently satisfy. The branch longs for its root, even if it does not know the name of what it misses.
This yearning torments humanity.
Because we carry within us the imprint of a higher reality while living inside a nature completely opposite to it.
And the deeper a person develops, the more unbearable this contradiction becomes.
On one side, the heart longs for infinite connection.
On the other side, the ego isolates, judges, compares, envies, dominates, and separates.
We are like broken fragments of a once-living soul scattered across a cold universe, each piece unable to reconnect naturally to the others. Every attempt at true connection immediately creates friction, rejection, misunderstanding, pride, criticism, exhaustion.
Like positive and negative poles touching directly, we create a spiritual short circuit.
The problem is not that we are evil.
The problem is that our nature itself is opposite to connection.
Why the Soul Was Broken
The breaking of the common soul was not a punishment.
It was an act of unimaginable love.
Had we remained connected instinctively, we would have existed like angels, like programmed beings operating automatically within perfection. We would never know what love truly is because we would never choose it. We would never understand the Creator because we would never become independent from Him.
Therefore, concealment was necessary.
Distance was necessary.
The sensation of separation was necessary.
The Creator hid Himself so completely inside the shattered system of souls that each fragment began to feel itself independent, detached, isolated, alone.
And precisely from this darkness, a new possibility emerged:
To build connection consciously.
To choose love above rejection.
To create unity above hatred.
To value bestowal above reception.
To construct, by our own efforts, the very revelation of the Creator between us.
This is the great secret.
The Creator does not simply reveal Himself to us as an already existing image.
Rather, He emerges from the corrected connections between us.
“You Have Made Me”
This statement is almost frightening in its depth.
“You have made Me.”
How can the created being make the Creator?
How can the finite build the Infinite?
But this is exactly the purpose of spiritual development.
The Creator deliberately concealed His form so that we would construct it ourselves through free choice.
Every time a person rises above his ego to connect with another, something new is born between them.
A tiny passage opens.
A spiritual bridge.
A thin thread of bestowal.
A place where self-love no longer rules absolutely.
And inside that passage, the quality of the Creator begins to appear.
Not as imagination.
Not as philosophy.
Not as religion.
But as a living force dwelling within the connection itself.
This is why no individual can reveal spirituality alone.
The Creator is not found inside isolation.
He is revealed specifically in the corrected relationship between souls.
Between two people who rise above rejection.
Between friends who continue despite inner resistance.
Between hearts that choose unity while feeling separation.
Every effort accumulates.
Every concession builds another spiritual cell.
Every act of rising above criticism adds another fiber to the soul of Adam HaRishon being rebuilt.
And slowly, from thousands upon thousands of inner efforts, a completely new reality emerges between us:
The Creator we ourselves have built.
The Birth of Independence
The most shocking part of the spiritual path is that true adhesion requires temporary separation.
A child cannot become independent while remaining completely attached to his parents.
Likewise, the soul cannot become similar to the Creator while existing as a passive extension of Him.
Therefore the created being must feel detached.
Abandoned.
Independent.
Free.
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It must stand opposite the Creator.
Question Him.
Resist Him.
Search independently.
Choose independently.
Even the desire for adhesion must eventually become free.
Not because the root compels it.
But because the soul itself has examined reality and chosen connection consciously.
This is why the sages said:
“My sons have defeated Me.”
Not defeated through rebellion.
But through attaining the same independence, wisdom, love, and intention as the Creator Himself.
The Creator desires independent beings capable of building love voluntarily.
Not puppets.
Not obedient machines.
But true partners.
Building the Creator Through the Friends
And where does this work happen?
Only in connection with others.
Not in theories.
Not in beautiful thoughts.
Not in mystical feelings.
But precisely where the ego suffers most: in real relationship with the friends.
Because the friends expose everything hidden inside us.
Pride.
Envy.
Hatred.
Competition.
Indifference.
Fatigue.
Rejection.
The breaking becomes visible only through connection attempts.
And this is why society becomes the laboratory of creation itself.
Every friend becomes material through which I can build the Creator.
If I learn to value the friends above my egoistic calculations, I raise the importance of bestowal above reception.
If I continue connecting despite inner rejection, I build another layer of spiritual reality.
If we mutually support the greatness of love, unity, and purpose above our natural impulses, we begin constructing a system no individual could ever create alone.
Then the Creator is no longer an abstract concept.
He becomes the law living inside our connection.
The force dwelling between us.
The mutual field created through shared bestowal.
And this revelation constantly renews itself.
Every degree requires a new Creator.
A higher one.
A purer one.
A more complete form of connection.
Again and again the previous attainment collapses into a mere point compared to the next degree, and again we must rebuild the Creator above a new ego, above a deeper separation, above stronger resistance.
Thus eternity itself is built.
The Creator Emerges From Between Us
In the end, the soul discovers something astonishing:
The Creator was hidden inside the connection all along.
Every moment of overcoming.
Every painful effort to unite.
Every silent act of concession.
Every prayer for the friends.
Every attempt to love above reason.
All of it was constructing the revelation of the Creator.
Not somewhere far away in heaven.
But precisely in the space between hearts.
And then a person suddenly understands why the world was shattered.
Why concealment exists.
Why love cannot be instinctive.
Why the ego is so cruel.
Why the path is so difficult.
Because only beings who build the Creator independently can truly become like Him.
And when humanity finally learns to connect correctly above all rejection, above all differences, above all hatred, then the entire broken system will ignite with life once more.
Like countless disconnected wires suddenly carrying one infinite current.
And within that perfect mutual connection, the Creator Himself will appear.
Not as One who imposed Himself from Above —
But as One whom the souls themselves gave birth to through love.
